Daily Dothttp://www.dailydot.com/Daily Dot Articleen-usMon, 10 Dec 2012 15:30:22 +0000Monday Mashup: Mark Twain, Satan … and dance music?http://www.dailydot.com/video/mashup-mark-twain-satan-dance-mysterious-stranger/<p><img src='http://cdn0.dailydot.com/cache/4f/44/4f44771c65339917a02dd557b4a1943b.jpg'></p><p>
<em>Start your week right with the Daily Dot&rsquo;s Monday Mashup, the best music remix from around the Web. Turn up your speakers or pop on your headphones, and bring the funk.</em></p>
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&ldquo;Life itself is only a vision, a dream. Nothing exists save empty space and you! And <em>you</em> are but a thought.&rdquo;</p>
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There&rsquo;s surely no better way to start a dance track than with a quotation from Satan, right? It gives the fundamentalists material.</p>
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Those memorable words are the opening words of our Monday Mashup, an amazing piece of electronic dance music from British DJ <a href="https://soundcloud.com/tuttutchild">Tut Tut Child</a>, otherwise known as Nick Kingsley. With over <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TutTutChild">10,000 likes</a> on Facebook in a year, he&rsquo;s made quite a social media splash, and thanks to <a href="http://monstercat.com/">Monstercat</a>, the label to which he&rsquo;s signed, rocking the YouTube, this particular video has racked up 195,500 views despite being basically static.&nbsp;</p>
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The quotation is taken from <a href="http://www.classicreader.com/book/1370/11/">Chapter 11</a>&nbsp;of Mark Twain&rsquo;s unfinished book <em>The Mysterious Stranger</em>, and the stranger in question is that most fascinating of angels, Satan. This recording comes from the 1985 Claymation film <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088678/"><em>The Adventures of Mark Twain</em></a>, where the novel is greatly condensed and adapted, yet still manages to convey Twain&rsquo;s main themes of the essential malevolence of the universe and how man&rsquo;s petty nature ultimately dooms him.&nbsp;</p>
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If you care to freak yourself out entirely, the Mysterious Stranger segment is on YouTube.</p>
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<iframe class="youtube-player" frameborder="0" height="340" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ifeyKhxgHbA?rel=0" title="YouTube video player" type="text/html" width="640"></iframe></p>
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Now to work out those jitters you just gave yourself with today&rsquo;s mashup, available on <a href="https://soundcloud.com/tuttutchild/mysterious-stranger">Soundcloud</a> as well as <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yyVQ7AmAW4">YouTube</a> and Spotify. Punctuated with remarks from the Mysterious Stranger, a.k.a. Satan, it&rsquo;s an almost entirely original composition, but it&rsquo;s just too good not to feature. The irresistible dance beat, combined with Satan&rsquo;s fatalistic pronouncements, invites us to dance while the world burns.</p>
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raincoaster@dailydot.com (Lorraine Murphy)Mon, 10 Dec 2012 15:30:22 +0000http://www.dailydot.com/video/mashup-mark-twain-satan-dance-mysterious-stranger/VideoYouTube